Gendarme (noun)
zhan-darm
a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer, or the Royal Moroccan police.
1540–50; Middle French, earlier gens d’armes, alteration of gent d’armes people at arms
Example sentences
“The gendarme stopped us and we thought we were in trouble, but he just wanted to tell us a joke about English tourists (true story).”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
